Sophie quotes from Leverage

Sophie

Shrew? Shrew?! Shrew?!

Sophie

Oooh, Diplomatic ID. Very handy for getting out of parking tickets

Sophie

[to Nate] This is a new low, even for you. We both know you're cold, you're distant, you're emotionally unavailable, but you're always punctual.

Sophie

Corn subsidies. Why did it have to be corn subsidies?

Sophie

You're all plans and clockwork. This con is unpredictable. It can break a mark. It can break a grifter. It can break a team.

I'm a citizen now. Honest.

I'm not.

Sophie

You're playing my side? [Looks over and sees the others] I always thought you had it in you.

Are you in?

Sophie

[Nodding] I wouldn't miss this.

All right, let's go break the law just one more time.

Victor? Now when was the last time you met a Victor?

Eliot

Vietnam. Town called Banho Zay.

Sophie

Chinese border.

Eliot

That’s an odd thing for you to know.

Sophie

That’s an odd place for you to be.

Parker

What is it with woman and shoes?

Sophie

There’s something wrong with you.

Eliot

That’s what I said.

Sophie

You pick the jobs.

My job is helping people. I help find bad guys.

Sophie

Then go find some bad guys. Bad guys have money. Black King, White Knight.

W-we can’t pay you.

Sophie

We work on an alternative revenue stream.

I don’t understand. The judge said that we couldn’t appeal. What are you gonna do?

People like that…corporations like that, they have all the money, they have all the power, and they use it to make people like you go away. Right now, you're suffering under an enormous weight. We provide…Leverage.

Parker

What is this?

This is our new cover story. Welcome to Leverage Consulting and Associates, founded in 1913 by the great Harland Leverage the Third.

Sophie

I’m sorry. Nate is going to kill you.

Eliot

Did you paint that?

I’m gifted.

Eliot

That’s weird.

Long version or the short version?

Sophie

Short.

Eliot

Short version

Parker

Shortest.

Photo and video forensics programs, back doors into every electronic banking system in the world, running heuristic datacrawlers all over the news sites to find our clients. Oh, also—

Parker

This is the short version?

Sophie

So, we steal the evidence and threaten to expose them.

Parker

Blackmail.

Ah, yes, but just enough blackmail to, uh, pay for Perry’s rehab, maybe a couple of million more in damages.

Ah, but that’s why Corporal Perry is lucky. He doesn’t have lawyers. He has thieves.

You’re not poaching, are you? Appropriations Bill 718, those are our defense contracts, don’t even bother.

Sophie

Mr. DuFort, surely there’s enough war to go around.

I rather like you.

Hardison, Hardison what’s this, what’s this bill they’re talking about?

You know, I’d like to give you the Schoolhouse Rock but this man has an RFID security card reader on his power supply so I’m a little bit busy.

Sophie

My company's focused on meeting Senators, but, um, I'm thinking Congressmen.

You know the great thing about Congressmen? Fifty, a hundred grand well spent will get one elected, but then once they’re in, the incumbency rate is over 95 percent! So you can get an average 18, 20 years’ use out of one of them. In these uncertain times, buying a United States Congressman is one of the best investments a corporation can make.

[listening in on comms] Oh, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. I'm a professional criminal and I find that disturbing.